Mary Keitany
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Full name | Mary Jepkosgei Keitany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | 18th January 1982 (age 38) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Kisok, Kenya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 158 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 44 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Best performance | 1:04:55 h (half marathon) 2:17:01 h (marathon) |
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last change: April 24, 2019 |
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany (born January 18, 1982 in Kisok near Kabarnet , Baringo District , Rift Valley Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner . She is an Olympian (2012), multiple world champion and multiple world record holder ( half marathon , 25 km run, marathon ). In the marathon she ran the third fastest, in the half marathon the fifth fastest ever run. (As of July 2020)
Career
In 2007, Keitany won the Lille half marathon in 1:08:43 h. At the 2007 Road Running World Championships in Udine she took silver in 1:06:48 h behind Lornah Kiplagat , who ran the world record . At the end of the year she married her fellow runner Charles Koech .
After a baby break in 2008, she repeated her victory in Lille in 1:07:00 h in 2009 and won the title at the World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham in 1:06:36 h. At that time she was the second fastest woman over this distance. Three weeks later she won the Delhi half marathon and came within range of the world record with 1:06:54 h.
In 2010 Keitany won the Zayed Half Marathon, came second in the World's Best 10K and improved the world record over this distance by more than two minutes in the 25 km from Berlin . In autumn, she set a course record of 1:08:50 h in the Portugal Half Marathon and came third in the New York City Marathon .
At the beginning of the 2011 season, Keitany improved Lornah Kiplagat's world record by 35 seconds to 1:05:50 h in the RAK half marathon . Two months later she won the London Marathon , improving her personal record by almost ten minutes to 2:19:19 h. After another course record in the Portugal Half Marathon, she was the favorite in the New York City Marathon. There she ran out a lead of two and a half minutes, but was intercepted in the last two kilometers by Firehiwot Dado and Bizunesh Deba and came in third.
Olympic Games 2012
In 2012, Keitany triumphed again in the RAK half marathon and the London marathon. With her time of 2:18:37 h, she established herself as the third fastest runner to date over the 42.195 km distance and was nominated for the Olympic Games in London . Surprisingly, she only finished fourth there.
In September 2014, at the Great North Run , Keitany ran the half-marathon distance with 1:05:39 h, the second-fastest half-marathon time in history. She was 27 seconds short of her compatriot Florence Kiplagat's world record . In November she won the New York City Marathon in 2:25:07 h.
In 2015 she repeated her success from the previous year at the New York City Marathon . This time she won the race in 2:24:25 h. In the following year she also won the New York City Marathon , requiring just one more second with 2:24:26 h. In 2016, she fell over a fallen colleague at the London Marathon, finished ninth and was not set up for the Summer Olympics.
World record time women's marathon 2017
Keitany ran a world record time of 2:17:01 h in a women's marathon at the London Marathon on April 23, 2017 . While Keitany held the record for women's marathons, Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 h in 2003 was considered a mixed race record, as Radcliffe had two male pacemakers from Kenya at the time. In October 2019 Brigid Kosgei set a new world record time of 2:14:04 h in Chicago and leads the all-time world best in marathon running behind Radcliffe (2nd place) and Keitany (3rd place).
2018 to date
In 2018, Keitany finished second in the RAK half marathon behind Fancy Chemutai (64:52 minutes) in a time of 64:55 minutes . The two runners barely missed a new world record. Chemutai only ran one second, Keitany only 4 seconds slower than Joyciline Jepkosgei in her world record run (October 2017). In 2019, Keitany finished fifth in the London Marathon in April, fourth in the Great North Run (half marathon) in South Shields and second in the New York Marathon in November . In 2020 she was not able to take part in a race due to the corona pandemic . (As of July 2020)
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany is 1.58 m tall and weighs 45 kg. First she was trained by Philip Kipyegon Singoei . Since 2007 she has been looked after by the management company Demadonna and its trainer Gabriele Nicola. Keitany is a mother of two.
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | distance | time | comment |
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9 Feb 2018 | 2 | RAK half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:04:55 | fifth fastest half marathon time ever run (as of March 29, 2020) |
Nov 5, 2017 | 2 | New York City Marathon |
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marathon | 2:27:54 | |
23 Apr 2017 | 1 | London marathon |
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marathon | 2:17:01 | third victory in London, personal best and world record time in a women's marathon |
Feb 10, 2017 | 2 | RAK half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:05:13 | |
June 25, 2016 | 1 | Olomouc half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:08:53 | |
13 Sep 2015 | 1 | Great North Run |
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half marathon | 1:07:32 | |
20th June 2015 | 1 | Olomouc half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:06:38 | track record |
Feb 13, 2015 | 1 | RAK half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:06:02 | |
Sep 7 2014 | 1 | Great North Run |
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half marathon | 1:05:39 | track record |
May 24, 2014 | 1 | Ottawa Marathon |
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10 km | 31:22 | |
Aug 4, 2012 | 4th | 2012 Summer Olympics |
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marathon | 2:23:56 | |
Apr 22, 2012 | 1 | London marathon |
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marathon | 2:18:37 | |
Feb 17, 2012 | 1 | RAK half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:06:49 | |
25 Sep 2011 | 1 | Portugal half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:07:54 | second win in Lisbon |
Apr 17, 2011 | 1 | London marathon |
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marathon | 2:19:19 | |
Feb. 18, 2011 | 1 | RAK half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:05:50 | |
26 Sep 2010 | 1 | Portugal half marathon |
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half marathon | 1:08:50 | |
May 9, 2010 | 1 | 25 km from Berlin |
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25 km | 1:19:53 | Winner with a new course record and world record |
Oct 14, 2007 | 2 | Road running world championships 2007 |
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half marathon | 1:06:48 | Second behind Lornah Kiplagat from the Netherlands , who ran a world record (1:06:25) |
Personal bests
- 10,000 m : 32: 18.07 min, May 15, 2007, Utrecht
- 20 km road run : 1:02:36 h, February 18, 2011, Ras al-Khaimah
- Half marathon : 1:04:55 h, February 8, 2018, Ra's al-Khaimah
- 25 km road race: 1:19:53 h, May 9, 2010, Berlin (world record)
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Marathon : 2:17:01 h, April 23, 2017, London
Web links
- Mary Keitany in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 6, 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mary Jepkosgei Keitany. Retrieved November 7, 2015 .
- ^ IAAF: Keitany sub-1: 07 again, Merga defends in Delhi Half Marathon ( Memento from November 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). November 1, 2009
- ^ IAAF: Kosgei, Keitany shatter 25Km World records in Berlin ( Memento from May 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). May 9, 2010
- ^ IAAF: Tola and Keitany romp to Half Marathon victories in Lisbon ( Memento of September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). September 26, 2010
- ^ IAAF: Keitany smashes Half Marathon World record in Ras Al Khaimah ( Memento from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). February 18, 2011
- ^ IAAF: Mutai and Keitany dominate and dazzle in London ( Memento of April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). April 17, 2011
- ^ IAAF: Keitany smashes race record in Lisbon ( Memento of September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). December 25, 2011
- ^ IAAF: Keitany wins but records blown off course in windy RAK Half Marathon . 17th February 2012
- ^ IAAF: Kipsang and Keitany claim London titles for Kenya . April 22, 2012
- ↑ HDsports: Farah ends season with victory; World class time from Keitany . September 7, 2014
- ↑ From fall to triumphal procession in a few minutes (April 25, 2016)
- ↑ Full throttle until the forces wane (April 23, 2017)
- ↑ IAAF: After 25Km World Record and World Half Marathon title, the Marathon is next for Keitany ( Memento of 13 May 2010 at the Internet Archive ). May 10, 2010
- ↑ Mother's Day in New York tagesanzeiger.ch November 1, 2015
- ↑ "Good luck, Mommy, and don't fall!" (November 7, 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Keitany, Mary |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keitany, Mary Jepkosgei (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kisok near Kabarnet , Baringo District , Rift Valley Province |